State-backed hacking group from China is targeting the Russian military

In an unexpected turn of events, research has surfaced about a Chinese APT advanced persistent threat group targeting the Russian military in recent cyberattacks. Tracked as Bronze President, Mustang Panda, RedDelta, and TA416, the group has focused mainly on Southeast Asian targets—and more...

Chinese "Override Panda" Hackers Resurface With New Espionage Attacks

A Chinese state-sponsored espionage group known as Override Panda has resurfaced in recent weeks with a new phishing attack with the goal of stealing sensitive information. "The Chinese APT used a spear-phishing email to deliver a beacon of a Red Team framework known as 'Viper,'" Cluster25 said i...

The top 5 most routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021

A joint Cybersecurity Advisory, coauthored by cybersecurity authorities of the United States CISA, NSA, and FBI, Australia ACSC, Canada CCCS, New Zealand NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom NCSC-UK has detailed the top 15 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs routinely exploited by malicious cybe...

Cyberespionage APT Now Identified as Three Separate Actors

A threat group responsible for sophisticated cyberespionage attacks against U.S. utilities is actually comprised of three subgroups, all with their own toolsets and targets, that have been operating globally since 2018, researchers have found. TA410 is a cyberespionage umbrella group loosely link...

Microsoft Issues Report of Russian Cyberattacks against Ukraine

Microsoft has a comprehensive report on the dozens of cyberattacks -- and even more espionage operations -- Russia has conducted against Ukraine as part of this war: At least six Russian Advanced Persistent Threat APT actors and other unattributed threats, have conducted destructive attacks,...

Cyberattacks Rage in Ukraine, Support Military Operations

Cyberattacks against Ukraine have been used strategically to support ground campaigns, with five state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT groups behind attacks that began in February. According to research published by Microsoft on Wednesday, the APTs involved in the campaigns are...

Millions of Java Apps Remain Vulnerable to Log4Shell

Four months after the discovery of the zero-day Log4Shell critical flaw, millions of Java applications still remain vulnerable to compromise, researchers have found. Rezilion expected that due to the “massive amount of media coverage” the bug unsurprisingly received, the majority of applications...

Emotet fixes bug in code, resumes spam campaign

Emotet threat actors resumed their email spam campaign on Monday after stopping it late last week to fix a bug. The bug—a flaw in how Emotet is installed onto a system after a victim opens a malicious email attachment—forced the actors to prematurely halt their campaign. Sample email of an Emotet...

APT trends report Q1 2022

For five years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. These summaries are based on our threat intelligence research; and they provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...

New APT Group Earth Berberoka Targets Gambling Websites With Old and New Malware

We recently found a new advanced persistent threat APT group that we have dubbed Earth Berberoka aka GamblingPuppet. This APT group targets gambling websites on Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms using old and new malware families...

Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends in Q1 2022

Ransomware continues as the top threat, while a novel increase in APT activity emerges By Caitlin Huey. Ransomware was still the top threat Cisco Talos Incident Response CTIR saw in active engagements this quarter, continuing a trend that started in 2020. As mentioned in the 2021... This is only...

Lazarus is back, targeting organizations with cryptocurrency thefts via TraderTraitor malware

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the U.S. Treasury Department Treasury have issued a joint Cybersecurity AdvisoryCSA to make organizations in the blockchai...

LAZARUS APT Using TraderTraitor Malware to Target Blockchain Orgs, Users

By Deeba Ahmed Lazarus APT group is backed by the North Korean government and is currently targeting organizations and unsuspecting users… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LAZARUS APT Using TraderTraitor Malware to Target Blockchain Orgs, Users...

TraderTraitor: North Korean State-Sponsored APT Targets Blockchain Companies

Summary Actions to take today to mitigate cyber threats to cryptocurrency: • Patch all systems. • Prioritize patching known exploited vulnerabilities. • Train users to recognize and report phishing attempts. • Use multifactor authentication. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the...

FBI, U.S. Treasury and CISA Warn of North Korean Hackers Targeting Blockchain Companies

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Treasury Department, warned of a new set of ongoing cyber attacks carried out by the Lazarus Group targeting blockchain companies. Calling the activity cluster TraderTraitor,...

U.S. Warns of APT Hackers Targeting ICS/SCADA Systems with Specialized Malware

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of nation-state actors deploying specialized malware to maintain access to industrial control systems ICS and supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA devices. "The APT actors have developed custom-made tools for targeting ICS/SCADA devices," multiple...

Russian Cyberattack against Ukrainian Power Grid Prevented

A Russian cyberweapon, similar to the one used in 2016, was detected and removed before it could be used. Key points: ESET researchers collaborated with CERT-UA to analyze the attack against the Ukrainian energy company The destructive actions were scheduled for 2022-04-08 but artifacts suggest...

APT Actors Target ICS/SCADA Devices

CISA, the Department of Energy DOE, the National Security Agency NSA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, warning that certain advanced persistent threat APT actors have exhibited the capability to gain full system access to multiple...

APT 10, a state-sponsored Chinese threat group, conducting a global cyber espionage operation

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A Chinese state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT 10 group has been attacking government, legal, religious entities and non-governmental organizations NGOs around the world in what appears to be an espionage campaign th...

Why the Mitre Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations Matter

This year’s MITRE Engenuity™ ATT&CK Evaluation simulates techniques associated with notorious threat groups Wizard Spider and Sandworm to test solutions' ability to detect and stop APT and Targeted Attacks...